Welcome Address

Unlocking The Next Level

Her Majesty The Queen of Denmark will provide opening remarks

Introducing the host of Global Fashion Summit: Copenhagen Edition 2024

Fireside chat

• The pace of fashion’s shift towards circular fibers must urgently increase, maintaining cost and quality considerations
• Which technological enablers can transform textile waste into high-quality, ready-to-spin recycled raw materials?
• Revolutionizing textile-to-textile recycling technology to enable the fashion & textile industry to shift to circularity

Next Level Barrier: Textile recycling has so far been limited to recycling pure compositions at small scales
Solution Unlock: Introduce a next generation greentechsolution to recycle majority textile waste inputs into quality circular fibers

✷ Includes sponsor content

Keynote Presentation

• Business becoming a force for good is dependent on collaborative partnerships
• Cooperation, transformative partnerships, and Net Positive advocacy can unlock huge benefits for the fashion industry and the planet if leaders are prepared to step up
• Solutions for the climate and equality crisis requires true leadership – Do not wait for external pressures to define the future of your industry

Panel discussion

• From ambition to action: acknowledging global shifts to drive major collaborative projects for fashion and beyond
• Leveraging interventions: insights from fashion’s most meaningful templates for investment
• What internal company capabilities are needed to deliver collective action oncritical impact areas like reducing fashion sector emissions?

Next Level Barrier: Individual company efforts to reduce environmental impacts lack the scale to meet critical commitments like the SDGs
Solution Unlock: Develop sector-wide capabilities to invest collectively for major shifts, such as electrification and renewable energy in major manufacturing countries

 ✷ Includes partner content

Panel discussion

• Lack of country-specific policies for circular economy transition is a critical barrier towards unlocking the next level globally
• What learnings on textiles-related policy development can be shared and applied around the world?
• Global alignment for a global sector: context-specific knowledge exchange for harmonized policy future

Next Level Barrier: Policies for the circular economy transition are fragmented across nations and regions, slowing down co-ordinated efforts for impact
Solution Unlock: Drive the convening of leadership voices by facilitating the Global Textiles Policy Forum platform

Presentation

• A strong belief in the power of innovation: empowering early-stage investment for exceptional fashion start-ups
• Acknowledging key fashion sector parameters to drive sustainability solutions for the future
• Revealing a new visionary: introducing the Trailblazer Programme

Next Level Barrier: Ground-breaking solutions to fashion’s biggest challenges exist but require upfront investment to scale at pace
Solution Unlock: Support for early-stage innovation help to fast-track innovator exposure towards meaningful awareness

✷ Includes sponsor content

Host introduction

Panel Discussion

• A marginal difference? From commitment to action on recycled material offtake across the value chain
• Innovation towards stronger purchasing commitment mechanisms: driving the required pricing and performance benefits of circular textiles
• Circular or recycled? Systems shifts to share rewards of reintroduced waste streams

Next Level Barrier: Fluctuating demand for recycled fibres is slowing the sustainable material transition and can discourage investment in material innovation
Solution Unlock: Collective action and offtake commitments to reach economies of scale

✷ Includes grantor content + partner content

Case Study

• As circular partnerships develop, a growing need for integrated reverse logistics is emerging across the fashion sector
• What are the strongest transition strategies for circular futures globally – and what role do reverse logistics play?
• Exploring opportunities: where can the fashion and logistics industries collaborate to co-create powerful solutions at scale

Next Level Barrier: Despite globally fragmented efforts, circular fashion systems are not yet in place
Solution Unlock: Integrated logistics partnerships to drive the creation of stronger networks through co-ordinated efforts

 ✷ Includes sponsor content

Case Study

• Scaling an end-to-end protocol: learnings so far from an industry-shifting cotton fiber transparency programme
• Action on field-level data: unlocking holistic impact from farms to fabric through grower-centric supply chain reporting
• Meeting a new burden of proof: how is policy driving brands and retailers towards cultivating deeper traceability strategies on cotton?

Next Level Barrier: Verified datasets for sustainable fibers are required to achieve transparency demands across all supply chain levels
Solution Unlock: Drive quantifiable and verifiable goals and measurement to the key sustainability metrics of U.S. cotton production

✷ Includes sponsor content

Round The Room

• A new paradigm: what is the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation and how can fashion view policy change as an opportunity for creative problem-solving?
• How are fashion’s design and product visionaries creating impact through adaptation and innovation?
• Empowering designers to reimagine existing systems: setting new industry standards through visionary collaboration

Next Level Barrier: Policy experts and fashion experts struggle to speak the same language, which prevents effective policy implementation
Solution Unlock: A facilitated dialog to explore and demonstrate the impact of ecodesign for sustainable products regulation on product design

Panel Discussion

• Level setting: addressing how articulating the framing for this topic and nuances to know
• Centering the human experience to democratize fashion sector decision-making
• From material sourcing to design: what core principles for Indigenous & Local Community engagement are actionable for the fashion sector today?

Next Level Barrier: Fashion lacks an industry-aligned approach to integrate Indigenous knowledge into climate, nature and sustainability strategies
Solution Unlock: Up-level industry understanding through a guided document on best-practice principles rooted in equity

✷ Includes partner content

Panel Discussion

• Adopting deeper transparency: connecting complex incentives from retail cycle to value chain
• Centering livihoods: how are good living wages for fashion production connected to product volume?
• Understanding impact through emissions: interventions, volumes and definitions in flux

Next Level Barrier: Fashion must drastically reduce its resource use to make more from less while humanizing consequences of current practices

Solution Unlock: Use reliable data and value chain worker-led insights to define, disclose and decrease material impact

Round The Room

• In a year of global elections, democracies can empower and enable citizen-level action towards circular economies on a massive scale
• But how is the fashion sector understanding the role of the consumer within the sustainable transition so far?
• From new retail models through to an ever-increasing level of knowledge and discernment in pop-culture, what actions are making an impact?

Next Level Barrier: Discrepancy between civil society and industry roles confuse the pathway towards a net positive fashion sector by displacing responsibilities
Solution Unlock: Pioneer collaborative circular responsibility from both stakeholders, focused on metrics and approaches to designing, styling and wearing

Case Study

• Fashion is a global sector with a global value-chain – so relies on successful collaboration between a wide range of stakeholders, regions and emerging markets
• In today’s global context and macro-economic climate, how are new iterations of collaboartion elevating the development of the fashion sector as a whole?
• How is fashion empowering practitioners in the field in paradigm-shifting and inspiring new ways ?

Next Level Barrier: Region-specific context must be understood by all collaborating stakeholders working towards a circular economy
Solution Unlock: Connect specific value-chain innovations and regional markets within a wider context of strategy towards a thriving fashion sector

✷ Includes partner + grantor content

Presentation

• Convening talented students and young professionals in an impactful advocacy programme
• Enabling the next generation to gain access to the industry, have their voices heard and ideas nurtured
• Rethinking how we define value and wellbeing in the fashion economy, under this year’s focus

Panel discussion

• Unlocking the next value chain level: a new depth of quality on waste, water + GHG emissions reporting
• Data exchange immediacy for meaningful collaboration across global key regions
• Hard to measure, even harder to manage: what’s next for real scope 3 data necessities

Next Level Barrier: The infrequency of many data reporting processes result in low quality or inaccurate data sets, preventing impact accuracy
Solution Unlock: Innovate supplier-centric data tools to track scope 3 performance

✷ Includes partner content

Fireside chat

• Carrying craft across generations, cultures and communities to pioneer true sustainable strategy
• Exploring the rich layers of dialogue that drive our understanding of luxury fashion creation
• When skills and stories combine: people-centric fashion impact that goes beyond industry understandings

Closing Address

The GFS Social is a ticketed event for attendees wishing to continue conversations from the Summit in an informal setting. With a prime focus on networking, the social is the place for guests to mingle and foster new business relationships while enjoying food and drinks. Tickets for the Summit social must be purchased in addition to the Summit ticket. 

📍Location: Mogens Dahl Concert hall
Ticketed event, added during registration to the Global Fashion Summit*

* If you have already purchased your ticket for the Summit, and wish to buy an add-on for the GFS Social, please contact service@globalfashionsummit.com.